Before the start of broadcast in Japan today on October 5, the official website for the TV anime adaptation of Uoto’s historical manga Orb: On the Movements of the Earth confirmed that the anime will run for two consecutive cours with a total of 25 episodes. The site also released a key visual featuring the protagonist Rafal observing the stars, and Badeni, Jolenta, and Oczy looking up at the same star-filled sky. The site describes it: “They are all from different backgrounds, ages, genders, and occupations. The visual expresses the grand and passionate story of this work, in which people who are fascinated by the beauty of the geocentric theory and who put their lives and beliefs on the line to prove it.”
Key visual
The TV anime Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is set to premiere in Japan, October 5, 2024, at 23:45 (JST). The first two episodes will broadcast consecutively on NHK General TV in Japan on the premiere day. And after each episode airs, it will also stream worldwide on Netflix.Maaya Sakamoto is cast as the protagonist Rafal, Kenjiro Tsuda as Nobak, Show Hayami as Hubert, Katsuyuki Konishi as Oczy, Yuichi Nakamura as Badeni, and Saya Hitomi as Jolenta.
Main Trailer
TV anime main staff include:
Director: Kenichi Shimizu (ALL OUT!!)
Series Composition: Shingo Irie
Character Design: Masanori Shino
Music: Kensuke Ushio
Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi
Anime Production: Madhouse
Uoto’s manga was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits from September 2020 to April 2022, for a total of eight collected volumes. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes an official English version of the manga and describes the story as such:
In fifteenth-century Europe, heretics are being burned at the stake. Rafal, a brilliant young man, is expected to enter university at an early age and study the era’s most important field, theology. But Rafal values Reason above all else, which leads him both to the shocking conclusion that the Earth orbits the Sun, and into the hands of the Inquisition!
A decade later, two members of the Watch Guild, the dour young Oczy and the cynical Gras, find a hidden stone chest that details the secrets of the universe Rafal left behind. Dare they try to change their own stars by selling the heretical texts, or would that only lead to the stake and the fire?
Source: “Orb: On the Movements of the Earth” TV anime official website / X (formerly Twitter)©Uoto/Shogakukan/Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Production Committee
